Ticket Stubs: Streetmosphere, Off the Hook fest return

For the fifth year, Streetmosphere will take to the streets of downtown Fort Collins.

Starting Friday, performers — including actors, jugglers, comedians, dancers, musicians and painters — will bring their talents to the streets and plazas of Old Town.

As part of opening weekend, Streetmosphere favorites such as painter Diane Findley (5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the southeast corner of College Avenue and Oak Street) will join emerging acts like improv troupe The Comedy Brewers (5 to 8 p.m. Saturday in Oak Street Plaza).

In its first season, Streetmosphere performed for more than 60,000 community members and tourists, according to Beet Street Project Manager Kari Munson. In 2013, it entertained an audience of 160,000.

This season, more than 40 acts were chosen from 150 applicants. Each weekend, audiences will be able to catch up to five simultaneous performances from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fridays, 12:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturdays and 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays.

For more information about Streetmosphere, including times, locations, maps and a list of performers, visit www.beetstreet.org. You can find this weekend’s lineup in the Beet Street column on Page 15.

Off the Hook Festival

This summer, the Off the Hook Festival will bring audiences the music of Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Stravinsky, Gershwin and Steve Reich, along with fiddle music, improvisations and a comical music-theater extravaganza about a tough turkey who leaves the farm and tries to make it in the big city.

The festival, which runs June 10 through the 22, is part of the Project Youth & Chamber Music, a group dedicated to creating lifelong creative thinkers, cultural advocates and appreciators of the arts through study, exposure and performance of chamber music.

Several events will be offered free, including an outdoor concert June 12 in Old Town Square featuring performers of both of the Suzuki violin method and the fiddle and the “Creativity” session, which happens at 4 p.m. June 16 at the University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington St.

Tickets for other events range from $7 to $40, with most ticketed events occurring at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 305 E. Elizabeth St.

Stacy Nick can’t sing, paint or recite Shakespeare, but she loves when other people do. You can follow the Coloradoan arts and entertainment reporter’s musings on the Fort Collins arts scene in the new weekly column Ticket Stubs, as well as on Facebook at www.facebook.com/coloradoanstacy.nick and on Twitter @StacyNick.